Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island - City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (CHO)

Notice of Acceptance of Final EIS

Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island) - The New York City Department of City Planning, as lead agency, has accepted a Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (CHO). The Final EIS is available at the following address 120 Broadway, 31st floor, New York, NY 10271, from the contact below and online at: https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/2023Y0427.

The New York City Department of City Planning (NYC DCP) is proposing a package of zoning text amendments (Proposed Action) with citywide applicability to provide a broader range of housing opportunities across the city. The Proposed Action seeks to enable more housing and wider variety of housing types across all neighborhoods citywide, from the lowest-density districts to the highest, to address the housing shortage and high cost of housing in the city. To create more housing and more types of housing, the Proposed Action comprises project components in four broad categories: Medium- and High-Density proposals in R6-R10 districts and equivalents; Low-Density proposals in R1-R5 districts and equivalents; Parking proposals, which span the full range of districts and densities; and assorted other proposals that are in line with project goals. The Proposed Action is expected to introduce more design flexibility for housing on unique lots, open up adaptive reuse of buildings for residential purposes, and increase housing opportunities by eliminating or reducing and simplifying parking regulations. The proposed text amendments would facilitate more housing and a broader range of housing types by removing obstacles, simplifying overcomplicated zoning, and updating regulations conceived in the last century to address a very different set of circumstances that exist today. The analysis year for the Proposed Action is 2039. The project is located Citywide in Bronx, Brooklyn, New York, Queens, and Staten Island, New York.